From the National Women's Law Center- (Washington, DC) President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law today, reversing the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling in 2007 and restoring the ability of victims of wage discrimination to hold their employers accountable for injustice and challenge the practice in court.
“This is truly a monumental achievement for women – and all workers. The Supreme Court stripped workers of their ability to fight wage discrimination but now a new President and Congress have stepped in and restored their basic legal rights,” said Marcia D. Greenberger, Co-President of the National Women’s Law Center. “Employers will now be held accountable for each discriminatorily reduced paycheck, because every time pay is unfairly lowered, it’s a violation of the law and fundamental fairness.”
16 - Yellow Ledbetter - Pearl Jam
8 comments:
It's one of those great moments, in the midst of all the bad news these days.
my mom said to my sister- 'now you'll get paid the same as men'- what a concept.
It's about time too.
thank you, dems & mr. obama, for righting a horrible wrong from the past...i'm sure this will be the first one of many...and for that i am grateful...
and can i say i fucking love me some michael mcready and that big fat juicy gibson he plays...
thanks, annie, for the yellow =)
FINALLY, welcome to the 21st century...this is something that should've been easily settled years ago (thinks about Gloria Steinem from the '70's). We're America, for crikes sake, where equality is suppose to be our mantra...but it's still taken this long? *sigh*
But what's not lost on me is other countries are so severely backwards in their equality. Were women are still considered second class citizens. *sighs again*
I'll finish off with a quote from Gloria:
This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour in which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.
Obama just keeps hittin' 'em outta da park.
Imagine...women getting paid the same as men for the same work - what a concept.
It's about time. It's bad enough that women do so much that is completely devalued so it's nice to know that there's some redress if you find you're being valued less in a workplace.
If only we could get men to wear anti-testosterone patches! Women would march forward in great strides.
And the world would be a much happier, more peaceful place too.
At least I think it would!
Cheers.
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